---
type: "Bill"
title: "Electric power."
description: "Electric power."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002 Special Session 2"
identifier: "AB 4"
citation: "California AB 4 (20012002 Special Session 2)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Electric power."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cardoza"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2001-05-15"
last_action: "2001-09-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/830e5510-6ae6-431a-810a-5696d85549ec"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120022AB4"
source_hash: "5003c33f7337ed525dfbff0e4da1015425b7cbd701d3ab1a42aae0edbe599663"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 4 (20012002 Special Session 2) — Electric power.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **05/15/01 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120022AB4&version=20012AB499INT)
2. **07/09/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120022AB4&version=20012AB498AMD)
3. **09/05/01 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120022AB4&version=20012AB496CHP)
4. **AB4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120022AB4)
5. **08/20/01 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120022AB4&version=20012AB497ENR)

## Votes

- Assembly 3rd Reading AB4 Cardoza By Bowen — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB4 Cardoza Concurrence in Senate Amendments Second Extraordinary Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB4 Cardoza Third Reading Urgency Second Extraordinary Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB4 Cardoza By Bowen Lay on Table — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cardoza — primary (person)
- Cohn — coauthor (person)
- Frommer — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Romero — coauthor (person)
- Salinas — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2001-09-05** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 3, Statutes of 2001-02 Second Extraordinary Session.
- **2001-09-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2001-08-24** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2001-08-20** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 265.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2001-07-20** Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
- **2001-07-19** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2001-07-19** Read third time. Amendments by Haynes tabled (Ayes 21. Noes 12. Page 134.) Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 139.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-07-11** (Corrected July 10. )
- **2001-07-09** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2001-07-05** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2001-06-05** Referred to Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Communications. `referral-committee`
- **2001-05-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2001-05-24** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 61.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-05-21** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-05-17** Referred to Standing Committee on Rules From committee: Do pass. (Pursuant to Assembly Rule 51.3). (Ayes 8. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2001-05-17** Referred to Standing Committee on Rules. `referral-committee`
- **2001-05-16** From printer.
- **2001-05-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/830e5510-6ae6-431a-810a-5696d85549ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).